Capacity Management Contracts in the North West

Capacity Management
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North West requiring Capacity Management skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Capacity Management over the 6 months leading up to 3 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 121 109 140
Rank change year-on-year -12 +31 +29
Contract jobs citing Capacity Management 4 26 14
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 0.20% 0.96% 0.44%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.23% 1.11% 0.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 22 9
10th Percentile - £350 £381
25th Percentile £425 £389 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £461 £490 £400
Median % change year-on-year -5.92% +22.56% -27.27%
75th Percentile £516 £498 £404
90th Percentile £589 £523 £500
England median daily rate £500 £500 £583
% change year-on-year - -14.24% +6.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 4
Median hourly rate - £28.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year - -56.92% -
England median hourly rate - £40.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year - -38.46% +225.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North West

Capacity Management falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in the North West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,774 2,349 2,873
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 90.14% 86.30% 90.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,146 1,497 2,042
10th Percentile £300 £306 £313
25th Percentile £393 £405 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £575 £593 £588
90th Percentile £662 £689 £675
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 104 246 140
10th Percentile £16.02 £10.95 £16.85
25th Percentile £22.72 £13.36 £21.91
Median hourly rate £32.25 £21.56 £35.50
Median % change year-on-year +49.62% -39.28% +71.13%
75th Percentile £60.00 £45.66 £49.43
90th Percentile £84.70 £57.50 £65.78
England median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.34
% change year-on-year -19.25% -3.59% +53.69%

Capacity Management
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

Job postings citing Capacity Management as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North West.

Job vacancy trend for Capacity Management in the North West

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Capacity Management in the North West.

Daily rate trend for Capacity Management in the North West

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Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Capacity Management in the North West over the 6 months to 3 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Capacity Management in the North West

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Capacity Management in the North West.

Hourly rate trend for Capacity Management in the North West

Capacity Management
Contract Job Locations in the North West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Capacity Management within the North West region over the 6 months to 3 May 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Manchester +12 4 £461 +31.79% 3
Capacity Management
England

Capacity Management
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Cloud Services
1 1 (25.00%) AWS
1 1 (25.00%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (25.00%) DHCP
1 1 (25.00%) DNS
1 1 (25.00%) TCP/IP
General
1 2 (50.00%) Telecoms
2 1 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Network Manager
1 2 (50.00%) Network Operations Manager
1 2 (50.00%) Operations Manager
2 1 (25.00%) Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) AWS Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Developer
2 1 (25.00%) IT Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) IT Operations Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) Node.js Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Operations Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) Senior
2 1 (25.00%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (25.00%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Management Information System
2 1 (25.00%) CMDB
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Change Management
2 1 (25.00%) Availability Management
2 1 (25.00%) Capacity Planning
2 1 (25.00%) Configuration Management
2 1 (25.00%) Design Patterns
2 1 (25.00%) Incident Management
2 1 (25.00%) Incident Response
2 1 (25.00%) Information Security
2 1 (25.00%) Integration Testing
2 1 (25.00%) ITIL
2 1 (25.00%) Knowledge Transfer
2 1 (25.00%) Performance Analysis
2 1 (25.00%) Problem Management
2 1 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (25.00%) Prototyping
2 1 (25.00%) Root Cause Analysis
2 1 (25.00%) Software Engineering
2 1 (25.00%) Task Automation
2 1 (25.00%) User Research
2 1 (25.00%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 1 (25.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (25.00%) Python
1 1 (25.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) CCNA
1 1 (25.00%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (25.00%) Network+ Certification
1 1 (25.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (25.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (50.00%) SLA
Systems Management
1 1 (25.00%) Nagios
1 1 (25.00%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) SolarWinds